To ask for another annoying things about other peoples homes thread?

[balihai550]

This one two years ago made my christmas... can we have another? 🎄 🙏

@Bluntness100 this thread is about bins by the looks of how many post there are about flipping bins!

No bin in the house except for the kitchen
Heating always on max
Smoking indoors, even in the kitchen - makes me feel nauseated and don’t want to eat despite what would otherwise be a delicious meal

I wouldn't be staying with anyone who smoked. If I really wanted to see them I would book a B & B near them, and just visit for a shorter time.

Bins in our house:
Our bedroom
DD's bedroom
bathroom
DH's office
Living room
Kitchen

I think that is plenty

@Ginfordinner
You just described my house! We must be twins separated at birth

@draughtycatflap

Not really annoying as such but... A jar on a shelf containing half chewed toffees with the chocolate coating sucked off. She didn’t like the toffee but the boyfriend did so they were popped in the jar for later. 🤮

that's grim ...

Do I pass the bin test?

@Ginfordinner

Do I pass the bin test?

Yes, I'm coming to visit 🤗

@Ginfordinner
May I come too, please?
No one can fill up a bin faster than me! I've inherited the trait from my mother....somehow we managed to fill up the 2 bins in our hotel room in less than 3 hours not long ago...same when I go to visit her at her home...the 2 of us go through at least six to 8 carrier bags a day. We have the gene that causes us to just manufacture trash! I feel like the little boy from the Snoopy / Charlie Brown cartoon who walks around with a cloud of dirt following him
I'll be glad to go around your house and empty the bins to the outside big bin if I visit. I'll bring gin

@balihai550 and @Ginfordinner
You both are welcome to visit mine anytime....oh, unless you don't like to wear jumpers or jackets with hoods inside. We keep our house rather chilly. That's my DH who offered to pose to illustrate how he sits around in the evenings whilst reading the paper. It's about 18° in here right now.
FYI, if we have guests we do turn on the heater (central heating) so they are nice and toasty...we just close our overhead vent so none of the hot air gets in our room.

As you can tell OP, in answer to your post, I cannot tolerate other people's overheated houses.

11 bins inside the house!

Houses where you get up first and finding the coffee making facilities is like a task in the crystal maze.
-note no machine of a kind in view in kitchen
-open every cupboard
-a cafetière!!
-try to find coffee for cafetière in every cupboard and every Tupperware box going

• after no luck identify instant coffee. Grim but needs must
• work out how kettle works
• try to find sugar. No sugar in this house so have to make do with cooking brown sugar
• make instant
• open fridge for milk
• find coffee for cafetière in fridge
• swear loudly

-put kettle back on for cafetière.

2 hours later have coffee.

Houses where you get up first and finding the coffee making facilities is like a task in the crystal maze

I think I’d just stick to instant in that scenario. My worst experience was discovering there was no instant coffee either, apart from a tin full of lumps and white flecks that looked like it had been there years! 😂
We don’t have a cafetière/French press but we do have coffee pots you heat on the hob for fresh coffee. I always leave them out but the number of guests who pour the coffee in the wrong bit then get confused, or do it right but let it burn, astonishes me. Maybe I need to leave instructions out 😊

@alittlequinnie

When the only toilet is right next to the living room, no window in it and they never shut the living room door - your whole family of in laws know every time you have a poo when you (are forced to) stop there for a few days!

My PiL have this layout!!!

No mirrors in the bathroom or the room you are staying in!

Really hot houses and houses that smell of dog. 🤢😷

@HikeForward I'm scared of the hob top coffee pots! I often find those in the crystal maze event buried in the back of cupboards behind a seldom used fondue set but again no coffee. Even if I did I can never remember how to use them and when I have, even under supervision, the coffee has been like mud.

Our friends have a very dramatic and very expensive bean to cup machine. It's always out of water/beans, you have to tell it exactly what you want through a series of loud beepy buttons and the thing makes such a noisy song and dance about making fucking coffee the entire house is awake by the time you've made a single (insubstantial) cup

No bedside lights
I my PiL’s case, no spare bed

Even if I did I can never remember how to use them and when I have, even under supervision, the coffee has been like mud

I sympathise about those giant beeping machines, my friend has one and it takes 10 minutes just to warm up before you can use it. Then you have to grind the beans which makes a racket too! And wait for the coffee stream to ‘blonde’ so it’s a long process.

Re the hob pots, I take out the sieve bit, fill main bit with hot water up to the line, put sieve bit back in and add a few scoops of fresh ground coffee in sieve bit. Then screw top on, put on smallest hob ring and heat on lowest heat until you hear it start to bubble. Then whisk it off heat immediately, or it burns and tastes terrible.
It’s very strong so I water it down with boiling water from the kettle (each pot makes about 4 espresso shots or cups of 4 cups of coffee if you add water and milk.)

[quote XherdanShaqiri]@ArabellaScott kindles, libraries, buy a book then pass it on.
No books doesn't mean no reading 🤷🏻‍♀️[/quote]
Exactly! We used to have books everywhere and one day it just dawned on me that this didn’t make sense. It was hoarding for no purpose.

We now have books on a small bookcase on an upstairs landing and cookbooks in the kitchen (plus dc each have small bookcase in their bedrooms).

Everything else is either passed onto friends or donated to charities. I feel strongly that they should bring joy / benefit to others rather then just sitting on shelves.

So if you came to my house you would see no books but we are a family of readers.

I agree 're fiction. I keep only my favourites to reread.and pass the rest on. But reference, poetry, kids books, cookbooks ...

XherdanShaqiri

<strong>*@ArabellaScott</strong><strong> kindles, libraries, buy a book then pass it on. No books doesn't mean no reading 🤷🏻‍♀️</strong>

Exactly! We used to have books everywhere and one day it just dawned on me that this didn’t make sense. It was hoarding for no purpose. We now have books on a small bookcase on an upstairs landing and cookbooks in the kitchen (plus dc each have small bookcase in their bedrooms). Everything else is either passed onto friends or donated to charities. I feel strongly that they should bring joy / benefit to others rather then just sitting on shelves. So if you came to my house you would see no books but we are a family of readers.

I agree. We have 5 bookshelves which contain not only books, but CD's, DVDs and maps. I only keep books that I know I will want to read again, reference books and cookery books. I don't keep books to make a statement about myself. Most of my fiction is on my kindle which is so much easier to read in bed at night than a book with the light on.

Having a huge number of books on bookshelves purely to show off is just plain snobbery.

I think shoes off or on might also be related to whether you live rurally or urbanly. In a farming community you take your shoes off when you enter someone's home because otherwise you tread all sorts in. My dad keeps a selection of slippers for guests in his entrance hall so nobody gets cold feet. At boarding school we had indoor and outdoor shoes. We wore outdoor shoes in school and indoor shoes in the boarding houses, though a lot of people just wore slippers.
I do ask people to remove their shoes when they enter my house and I don't care if they judge me, I don't want to spend my precious spare time cleaning mud off my carpets.

@Scbchl

People (looking at you sister) who invite you round for the evening (pre covd) for a drink and have a roll of toilet roll to last 10 people the whole night.

I always bring me own bog roll

@Mybedislisting

Live, laugh love on the walls

Blue flashing Christmas nothing more chic at Christmas than the major accident, police in attendance look

Yesterday driving in the dark, heavy rain on one-car wide lanes I saw flashing red lights, Oh, accident thought I, no, flashing decs. On the way back saw flashing lights, cursed, rounded the bend to find an accident!

@drtyminded

quick repair jobs not done , once asked a friend why they hadn't fixed door that hadn't shut properly for over 5 years , too busy sitting scrolling through FB apparently. Fixed it myself in 30 minutes as it annoyed me more than friend (tightened the hinge screws)

We have friends whose central heating boiler packed up in 1986 and it's still not working! There again, they're a whole page and a half people!